Sep 21, 2017 | Apple, phone, shopping
It’s new phone season! Here’s the view from 10,000 feet of the premium phones from Apple, Samsung, and Google. The manufacturers spent the last few years making our phones bigger and improving the cameras. They’re about as big now as anyone reasonably wants, and the...
Sep 21, 2017 | Apple, iPad, mail, Office 365, Outlook, phone
Update 09/26/2017: Apple has released iOS 11.0.1, which fixes the problem. Update 09/25/2017: I’ve seen reports that Microsoft was able to take steps internally to resolve this problem. No confirmation yet, but with luck your mail will work fine after the iOS 11...
Sep 18, 2017 | Android, Apple, Google, phone, shopping
Ten years ago Apple introduced the iPhone and changed our world. Today more than three-quarters of all adults in the US carry a powerful computer – a smartphone – around with them at all times. Phone manufacturers introduce new phones each fall. There are a few...
Aug 28, 2017 | Adobe, Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google, Google Drive, Microsoft, mobile, Office 365, OneDrive, phone, web_services
One of the technology challenges in 2017 is simply remembering what can be done with your phone or computer. It’s easy to add apps to your phone or install programs on your computer; it’s harder to remember them a few weeks later when you have something new to do....
Aug 25, 2017 | Apple, Dropbox, Google, mobile, OneDrive, phone, photos, web_services
Here’s a tip for iPhone users that might make you sleep more soundly. If you rely on Google Photos, OneDrive, Dropbox or other online services to back up your photos from an iPhone, open those apps when you’re connected to Wi-Fi and make sure they have synced your...
May 24, 2017 | Amazon, Android, Apple, augmented reality, business, Google, mobile, phone, web_services, WeChat
Google announced a number of new products and services at its developer conference last week. One of them, Google Lens, might change the world. It might be the most important technology announcement in ten years. Of course, it’s just as likely that it will turn out to...